Lei Zhu, Ph.D.

I am an Assistant Professor of the Industrial and Systems Engineering department within the William States Lee College of Engineering at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. I am an affiliate faculty member of the School of Data Science (SDS) at UNC Charlotte.

My research lab - Smart Infrastructure and Mobility (SIM), covers Smart Mobility Systems and Spatial Sensing,  Big Data in Transportation, Transportation Energy, and Shared and Automated Mobility System Modeling and Simulation.  Before joining UNC Charlotte, I was a research scientist at National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Golden, Colorado. Prior to joining NREL, I served as a postdoc fellow at the University of Nevada, Reno, and have worked as a Research Engineer in Metropia Inc. for years. I got my Ph.D. degree from the University of Arizona. I am a Senior Member of IEEE, a member of IEEE Smart Cities Technical Committee of Control Systems Society, and a member of ASCE. 

Graduate Student Hiring (Ph.D. and/or M.S. Level):

I am looking for graduate students with expertise in Systems Engineering, Traffic/Transportation Engineering, OR, AI/ML, Computer Vision, Control Theory, etc. Please don't hesitate to contact me if you are interested.  

Visiting Scholars and Collaborations are always welcome!!

My research interests: Google Scholar website

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